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Hoi polloi (/ ˌhɔɪ pəˈlɔɪ /; from Ancient Greek οἱ πολλοί (hoi polloí) 'the many') is an expression from Greek that means "the many " or, in the strictest sense, "the people". In English, it has been given a negative connotation to signify the common people. [1] Synonyms for hoi polloi include "the plebs" (plebeians), "the ...
Hoi Polloi. (film) Hoi Polloi is a 1935 slapstick comedy short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the tenth entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Harry J. Bryant. . . (m. 1935) . Geneva Doris Mitchell (February 3, 1908 – March 10, 1949) was an American actress. [1] After beginning her entertainment career as a chorus girl at the age of twelve, she became more well known for her roles in several Hollywood films.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder ...
The Hoi-Polloi turn the sprout-butt into more chow, which they divide among themselves. The beans take the supply of chow back to their part of the Beanworld and consume it. Gran’Ma’Pa : a large, mute, mostly immobile being resembling a tree which is the beans’ spiritual guardian and physical parent.
The specific epithet (hoipolloi) is derived from the Ancient Greek hoi polloi meaning "rabble", referring to the habitat of the type specimens "being found on the outer parts of an amphitheatre, where one expects to find 'the rabble' congregating". Distribution and habitat
The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical, farce, and slapstick comedy. Six total Stooges appeared over the act's run (with only three active at any given time); Moe Howard (born Moses ...
Sociologically, the term high culture is contrasted with the term low culture, which comprises the forms of popular culture characteristic of the less-educated social classes, such as the barbarians, the Philistines, and hoi polloi (the masses), [3] though very often also enjoyed by the upper classes. The Acropolis of Athens, Greece